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4/5 Barnes & Noble ISBN 978-0-316-10584-2 LC Class D804.J3 B73 2003 Publisher Little, Brown and Company OCLC 52071383 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Publication date 2003 Dewey Decimal 940.54/05/09528 21 Originally published 2003 Genre Non-fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Flyboys a true story of courage by james bradley
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage is a nonfiction book by writer James Bradley, and a national bestseller in the U.S. This book details a World War II incident of the execution and cannibalism of five of eight American P.O.W.s on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands).
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Overview
The book describes the backgrounds of several American airmen who flew raids over Japan during World War II, and includes interviews with Japanese veterans of the conflict. It describes an air raid in which ten crewmen survived being shot down, with nine captured and subsequently killed and cannibalised by their captors. The tenth crewman, future US president Lieutenant George H. W. Bush, was not captured.
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